To import cocaine from Peru to Italy, they hid it inside votive candles. The traffickers were defeated by the police officers who arrested three people - two Italians aged 42 and 52 and a Peruvian aged 39 - and seized eight kilos of cocaine paste, a pistol and ammunition. In Brianza, an apartment has been identified in which the drug would be refined.
The investigations, coordinated by the DDA of Milan and the Public Prosecutor's Office of Monza, were carried out by the mobile team of Monza and Brianza, of the central anti-crime management, in collaboration with the central operational service. According to the investigators, the operation interrupted a huge traffic of cocaine paste destined for Cesano Maderno (Monza and Brianza) to then supply the drug dealing squares of Lombardy.
"The investigative cooperation made it possible - explains the Monza Police Headquarters - to identify last April the shipment from Peru of a package containing 14 religious candles in 8 of which over 8 kilograms of cocaine paste had been hidden, destined for a 42-year-old Italian resident in Cesano Maderno. Having identified the batch of cocaine ready to be shipped, the Peruvian authorities in agreement with the police investigative bodies proceeded with the "international controlled delivery" with delayed seizure of the narcotic substance, in order to be able to identify the network of recipients in Brianza and expand the investigations in a broader context.The Prosecutor of Lima, who went to the police headquarters in Monza, handed over the votive candles to the investigators of the Flying Squad, soon identifying two other people involved, the 52-year-old and the 39-year-old, the latter, an expert in chemistry, arrived from South America in order to proceed, with specific products, to refine the cocaine paste to obtain the finished narcotic».
The arrests were triggered with the controlled delivery of the package by a fake deliveryman policeman.
(Unioneonline/ss)
